Chris Sawle, Author at Backseat Mafia

TRACK: Bill Callahan reveals ‘Pigeons’ from new album

IT TURNS out he wasn’t joking. Last week’s announcement of a new Bill Callahan record in September included a cryptic passage, chatty and hyperbolic, stating: “Ten Whole Weeks until Gold…

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TRACK: GANG OF FOUR – ‘Day Turns to Night’: in tribute to Andy

LOOKING back, perhaps the first real portent of the way this year would unfold more sourly than most was our loss of that architect of the scratchy, jagged riff and…

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TRACK: Jaga Jazzist’s “Spiral Era” remix is heading for other galaxies

GRADUALLY and cultishly, Norwegian octet Jaga Jazzist have been building probably the most interesting and wide-ranging catalogue in the modern jazz sphere; wholly unafraid of leaping genre fences, taking and…

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NEWS: Penelope Isles, Marissa Nadler for Elliott Smith charity live stream

ARTISTS including Penelope Isles, Marika Hackman and Marissa Nadler will be appearing in a charity benefit show streaming on Instagram this evening, Monday, June 29th. The live-streamed show, entitled “Everybody…

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ALBUM REVIEW: King of the Slums – Our Favourite Trainers

THEY emerged from Hulme in 1986, breathing sour fire and an eagle eye for unfashionable detail. Second cousins of The Fall in the way they filtered and spat language to…

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TRACK: Race Banyon’s ‘Pressure Off’ drinks from the deep house well

EDDIE JOHNSTON, who is carving out something of a name for himself in his native New Zealand with a brace of contrasting musical identities, has released a rather tasty little…

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SAY PSYCH: album review: Venus Furs – ‘Venus Furs’

IT’S an album that’s been even longer in the creation than My Bloody Valentine’s legendary Loveless. Five years to write, five years to record and hone; but finally Montreal psych-shoegaze…

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TRACK: Thiago Nassif – ‘Santa’: tropicalia is reborn in glitch

LIKE the Tropicalia movement of the late 1960s, in which artists such as Os Mutantes and Gileberto Gil turned to the creation of music as a pushback against political extremism,…

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ALBUM REVIEW: Khruangbin – ‘Mordechai’

THEY weren’t an outfit that was hyped into the musical consciousness worldwide by a huge machine, fully packaged and billboarded; rather Houston’s Khruangbin have seeped into the world gradually but…

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EP REVIEW: JOCKSTRAP – Wicked City: we’re not in Kansas anymore, Toto

WARP debutantes Jockstrap – the duo Georgia Ellery and Taylor Skye, jazz and electronics students respectively in a previous life – really do screw with the ol’ head, in the…

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